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Originally posted by scot
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Originally posted by davidalbert
...Whether freddie goes or stays this Friday, I would just like to THANK the executive producer of BB10 for handpicking Freddie for the series.....after meeeting him at a chance party...and finding him unusual.....
the producer was criticised for doing this but others such as Noirin and isaac were handpicked from the Aussie reality show..and people have been found in this way before...Ziggy had been part of a pop group for instance.....
For me, Freddie has been the most real person I have seen on a REALITY Tv show in this reality tv era....the oppsite of all the PLASTIC wannabes we see in the media today in our heavily botoxed celebrity cyulture..where everyone is plastically or surgically enhanced like Sophie.......and wants to be yet another Chantelle or peter andre.
Many of us actually CHOOSE ..NOT to live in that plastic world and Freddie has been a gentle softspoken alternative to that LOUD abrasive culture
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He reminds me of Prince Myshkin, the central 'holy fool' character in Dostoyevski's great novel 'THE IDIOT, a person from the upper classes who passes through society as an outcast, regarded as a fool, but somehow one of the most wise persons in it................he even looks like Christ at times.
Anyway I am enormously grateful to the producers of BB10 for letting us gett o know Freddie a liille these past 10 weeks, it has been a truly REVELATORY and moving tv experience, up there with all my moments over tv watching the past 40 years.
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Liked the comparison with Myshkin, though there are elements of Nastasya in his(Fred's)make up too. Is Bea Fredies Rogozhin?
Fred is certainly an unusual curiosity and it does not surprise me at all that a hard nosed profit driven BB executive handpicked Fred for the BB house.
The curiosity factor is, at least somewhat, derived from the fact that Fred comes from one of the smallest minorities in Britian; The stately home residing, boarding school and Oxbridge educated elite.
Further curiosity is provided by Fred's paradoxical admixture of relatively high intelligence and extreme naivety(this naivety giving him his 'likeability' factor)and social ineptitude.
Fred profoundly lacks the social skills needed to integrate sucessfully with new and unknown groups of people from varied socio-economic backgrounds. He responds to his inabilty to integrate by creating a persona he imagines will be accaptable to other HMs and the BB audience. Unfortunately he has not been wholly succesfull and so the finished product resembles faded facsimile of a real person.
Freddie is likable and the social anxieties and rejection he has experienced in the house are not his own fault. Rather, they are, no doubt, a product of his upbringing.
Fred belongs to an extremly isolationist class, he inhabits a world largely removed from the everyday lives of the average citizen of the UK. His experiences and social development have been shaped and informed by stately homes, boarding schools and Oxbridge.
It is indicitive of this upbringing that he is unable to mix sucessfully with varied people. Fred's social failings are a result, of amongst others, of being removed from parents and siblings and sent off to boarding school. Fred himself stated he was looking forward to getting to know his siblings now they have finished with boarding schools!
The OP seems to imply that BB has had altruistic motivations regards inculding Freddie as a HM?
Whilst i agree with davidalbert that the BB show has been REVELATORY re Fred, I think perhaps we would differ somewhat re what exactly has been 'revealed'.
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Great post thank you.
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12-08-2009, 12:38 PM
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